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Year Created

1978

Year Acquired

1978

Surfaces

Paper

Cultures

Canadian

Medium

Serigraph

Art Forms

Work on paper

Cocagne wants, Cocagne can

by: Herménégilde Chiasson


Small hermenegilde chiasson Herménégilde Chiasson

Herménégilde Chiasson, OC, ONB, artist, poet, playwright, film director, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick (born 7 April 1946 in Saint-Simon, NB). An Officer of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and New Brunswick's 29th lieutenant-governor, Chiasson is considered the father of Acadian modernism and is one of Canada's foremost advocates of Acadian culture and the arts. He is also notable for his insistence upon Acadian culture being a living culture rather than a persecuted and exiled one.

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